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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Buslogic controller, Sync mode & a SCSI disk error
To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:37:53 -0500 (CDT)
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> Not really, scsi(8) was flushed out at my request and expense to replace
> just 1 of the tools I had to run under DOS frequently, several of the
> other tools I use less often and have not sought out a FreeBSD replacement
> for.
> 
> The ``tool'' I usually use for running a ``verify with remap'' pass is the
> aha2940 BIOS lately, since I can just pop the drive on a test setup and
> fix it.

That is nice now show me how to do it on a machine that is 30 miles away
please :-)  :-)

> > > 
> > > The NCR controllers in use around here do not have a built in BIOS utility
> > > (like the Adaptecs do) to do low level formatting and verification/bad
> > > block remapping.
> > 
> > What's wrong with scsiformat(8)?  It used to be in the 2.2 branch for
> > quite some time, but also finally found its way into 2.1.5R.
> 
> scsiformat(8) is destructive only, I can't fix a drive full of data
> with it.  :-(.  How hard would it be to extend it so that it does
> what the aha2940 ``verify'' mode does?

Perhaps even with a nicer interface :-)  Personally I am quite fond
of the "analyze" feature available in Sun format, but that is also a
fair amount of additional work.

... JG